Li Xiu took the mission token and temporarily rented a spiritual vulture to fly to a sand valley near the Earth Fire in the Yuling Sect.
This place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is fire coming out of the mountains. It is also an active volcano crater. More than a dozen foundation-building masters guard the mountain gate here.
It took Li Xiu a long time to enter the valley. Upon entering, Li Xiu saw a group of disciples from outside the sect.
These disciples of the outer sect were all dressed in gray talisman robes, with countless spiritual patterns all over their bodies. They were all busy, and they looked like the construction workers Li Xiu had seen in his previous life.
A huge cave was dug out by these people from the outer sect in the middle of the mountain in the distance. When Li Xiu saw the huge cave entrance from a distance, the fire of the earth and lungs inside was still flowing slowly in the cave.
What kind of exquisite skills does it take to dig a tunnel in the valley? And the disciples of the outer sect are not afraid of the firepower of the earth and lungs that rolls like a river!
Li Xiu saw a group of disciples from the outer sect swimming out of the River of Earth's Lung. These people's bodies were covered in blue light, and they were not afraid of the earth's fire.
After a few brief glances, Li Xiu headed to the sand valley.
There are also several foundation-building monks guarding the entrance of Sand Valley. Li Xiu estimates that these monks are not here to guard the outer disciples, but to keep an eye on the outer disciples and prevent the outer disciples from walking around at will.
When he entered the sand valley, a short and fat foundation-building master confiscated Li Xiu's storage bag and only gave him a purple rattan dustpan, a magic weapon knife, iron fire ants and crystal crystals.
Two small cloth bags and a pair of fireproof gloves.
Li Xiu put on his gloves and entered the sand valley with the dustpan in his arms.
The terrain in the Shagu Valley is rugged. After walking through a rocky road, the ground is covered with dark brown ore blocks. A little further on, we reach the mouth of the inner valley.
The place where fire ants are raised in the sand valley is within the mouth of the valley. The topography of the valley is like a gourd, with two black sand fields, one large and one small. The large sand field is the nest of the captive queen ants and fire ants. No one is allowed to enter.
The queen ant has just laid eggs, so it is necessary to kill the previous batch of fire ants at this time! This will not only avoid the flooding of fire ants, but also obtain some crystals for the elders of the Yuling Sect to use.
The smaller black sand area is where the sect kills the iron fire ants.
Li Xiu's job here is to pick the fire ants and use a magic weapon knife to dig out the crystals from the fire ants, put them in a cloth bag, and then put the fire ants into another bag.
Entering the small sand field, Li Xiu saw several disciples picking iron fire ants.
Li Xiu took a quick look and found that among these disciples there were people Li Xiu knew well.
There was Ning Yao, a direct disciple of the Weapon Refining Hall who looked shaky all over his body, and Liu Ye, a swarthy young man who was also from the Weapon Refining Hall.
Li Xiu walked to Ning Yao holding the dustpan. There were already more than a dozen fire ants mixed with iron sand in Ning Yao's dustpan.
Ning Yao shakes the dustpan little by little, and she gently sifts out the fire ants the size of her thumb, and pours away the iron sand. Ning Yao then uses a knife to break open the abdomens of each fire ant, carefully sifting out the gray-yellow belly flesh.
Carefully squeeze a black crystal the size of a grain of sand into the small cloth bag.
After doing this, Ning Yao put away the fire ants and picked up the next fire ant, her expression became solemn.
"Senior Sister Ning, do you still recognize me?" Li Xiu stepped forward to say hello.
"You...you are Junior Brother Li! I didn't expect that after not seeing each other for a few years, your cultivation has reached a high level of Qi training!" Ning Yao was surprised and looked up and down at Li Xiu.
"No, no, I was lucky enough to get a high-level elixir to break through! But how did Senior Sister Ning do this task of picking up the crystals?" Li Xiu asked.
"Junior brother Li, have you seen those people who came here?" Ning Yao said tremblingly.
"Sister, are you talking about those disciples from the outer sect?"
"Yes! They are the disciples of Baidu Mountain who built the Earth Fire Alchemy Chamber for our Yuling Sect! Soon our Yuling Sect will also have an Earth Fire Alchemy Chamber to refine weapons!" Ning Yao trembled happily.
"Senior Sister Ning, what kind of fire did the sect use to refine weapons in the past? Junior brother, I am very interested in the flames of elixir refining and weapon refining!"
"Toad fire, low-level disciples have always used toad fire refining tools in the past. Before each refining, they need to use the spirit feeding pill to appease the fire-breathing toads! It is very troublesome! If the spirit feeding pill is not enough, there is this iron So can fire ants.
But things will get better soon, and with the Earth Fire Pill Room, those Flame Toads can return to the Flame Pond!" Ning Yao said with her hands on her shoulders.
Li Xiu's gaze dropped fifteen degrees unconsciously, and he quickly straightened his gaze.
"What Yan Toad likes to eat most is fire ants. Junior brother, look at this fire line under the mouthparts of this iron fire ant! There is a trace of iron fire ant inflammation in it, and Yan Toad is interested in this trace of black inflammation!" Ning Yao picked up an iron fire ant and measured it for Li Xiu.
"If it bulges here, it means that the black flames of the iron fire ants are still there! Don't touch this place at this time! Otherwise, it will burst into flames!"
"Oh~ it's bulging... it's easy to spit fire..." Li Xiu studied hard.
Ning Yao taught Li Xiu little by little how to deal with the corpses of iron fire ants, and took out a yellow-brown stone on her body.
"This is the flame extraction stone. The flame can be absorbed on the stone. When you use it to dig open the iron fire ants, you will not be burned by the ant fire!" Ning Yao handed the fist-sized flame extraction stone to Li Xiu. .
"Thank you, Senior Sister Ning!" Li Xiu took the flame stone and put it in his arms.
The two chatted for a while about the knowledge of weapon refining, and Li Xiu briefly asked what he wanted to know about the flames used in weapon refining.
The Yuling Sect uses demon fire, that is, Yan Toad Fire, to refine weapons. There is a Toad Fire Hall in the sect, which is specially used to provide disciples with elixir refining and weapon refining.
When making elixirs in a small cauldron, three Flame Toads are usually used. The three Flame Toads lie under the small cauldron and take turns spitting out flames. If strong firepower is needed, the three Flame Toads can also be ordered to spit out flames together.
When it comes to making large cauldrons, according to different needs, there are also the middle cauldron with six flame toads breathing fire and the large cauldron with nine flame toads spewing fire at the same time.
Yanchan had to consume a lot of demon power every time he made elixirs, and it would take a long time to recover afterwards. The elders of the Yuling Sect felt that it was really troublesome, so they invited Baidu Mountain to build the Earth Fire Alchemy Room here.
Li Xiu wanted to exchange it for a Flame Toad. His "Hundred Solutions to True Flames" had a very high-level flame like Yan Toad Karmic Fire written on it!
Although I don’t know what the difference is between the Flame Toad Fire and the Yan Toad Karmic Fire, if I can get a Flame Toad, I might be able to collect the materials in the "True Flame Hundred Solutions" in the future!
With things in mind, Li Xiu's hands began to get busy.
After rolling up a layer of sand and gravel and sifting out the fire ants with a dustpan, Li Xiu picked out the fire ants one by one.
Not to mention, with the help of the flame-catching stone, the fire ants suddenly burst out were all absorbed by the flame-catching stone, and Li Xiu was not burned by the black flames.
The flame stone is like a stove, retaining traces of black flames, and its surface is getting hotter and hotter. Although it is hot, there is no trace of flame.